nice work

Personally, If it was front and center and in my face I’d probably not visit the site.

I know, sounds weak. That said, I avoided all news and social media from Friday thru Sunday, and it was very beneficial for my mental health. I checked news for a few minutes this morning, just to check the big picture, and asses whether I feel I have enough resources.

Give people the choice to interface or not would be my suggestion.

Morning Pages. 3 pages of cursive brain dump. And lists

I started out journaling doing a bit more complex and creative bullet journaling, but really, i found myself just drawing guidelines so I could write. Then “morning pages” (julia cameron’s 3 page morning brain dump) got me started in a plain composition book, many moons ago. I vary it up by doing wide rule, less concentrated pages for one book, then denser college-ruled manifestos of daily everyday meanderings for the next. I quickly recovered the cursive skills of my youth, and take a lot of joy doing it. My style has even evolved, there’s some really beautiful variations on D’s and B’s, for instance, and just writing them feels good. The back couple pages are generally words i find particularly fun to write, once discovered, quotes, etc.

All that said – ive been thinking of going back to a more creative bullet journal style. If anything just to start using the sheer volume of hoarded, quality craft supplies i have falling off the shelves. it’s comical. I really should use it 🙂

“Fox Prompts”. Random, or maybe not so random, word or subject.

I’d actually make a forum specifically for it, the “fox prompts” or something catchy. People hit the Fox Prompt forum, and there’s the latest prompt. See what others have done, discuss, upload yours, etc. Latest at the top, and a continual legacy of images and work people have done as times goes on.

Analysis paralysis is a big (if not the biggest) roadblocks to creativity, and just giving the community an active target, even monthly, would be a good thing imho.

I created a folder on my desktop called “Inspiration”. Anything that inspires me, i throw it in there. A logo, nature, a meme, a pet pic, a classic work of art, other people’s art, my own art. It doesnt matter. Storage is cheap. If it inspires me, for whatever reason, it goes in that folder. Video games inspire me all the time, screenshot and throw in the folder. I’ll be out and about and see a building, or brick pattern, or bumper sticker – I snap a pic and email it to myself, throw it in the folder. I’ll be reading a book, and there will be an included map or ornate page border or something – snap a pic, throw it in the folder. It is a repository of readily available random inspiring images that I find interesting, for one reason or another.

I also have the folder set to “show extra large icons” and sort by “date modified”. When I open that thing, I’m hit by a barrage of recent things that inspire me. Ideally, I’m already holding my pencil and sketchbook is out. Momentum is heading in the right direction. Just start.

Nice work!